Though many believe the death of Osama bin Laden was a good thing, once the fervor of jubilation ends, it will become clear that the United States may have just made things much, much worse. The US is set to face stricter restrictions on freedom of movement now that bin Laden is dead.

News reports have begun commenting on the latest threats that were found to be in the planning stages at bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. Many Americans have been fighting against the increase in TSA presence in the nation’s train and bus stations. With the new found documents, there is now an excuse to raise security around train, bus, and subway stations. Around the world, travelers are being warned to remain vigilant of forthcoming attacks.

Again, the follow-through is shoddy. With over 400 subway stations in New York City, many with multiple entrances, you are never going to truly stop a terrorist with random searches. If you refuse to be searched, you leave the station and walk down to the next one or you walk outside, enter from another corner and continue on your way.

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The DHS has also announced that the TSA would start conducting pat downs at shopping malls, churches, sporting events, public parks, and other places of interest. The DHS stated last year that they would eventually like to do this and, now, the death of bin Laden gives them a reason to do so.

Though I am not a terrorist, a suicide bomber seems like an inefficient way of creating terror when you could easily go across the street from any of these types of buildings and use a rocket launcher. Instead of killing all the people in a small area around you, you’ve now blown up the entire building. All the TSA checks in the world aren’t going to stop that and it certainly won’t stop anyone who is serious about blowing up a building.

If you were a terrorist and didn’t want to blow up a mall or sports stadium, there’s always the rail line. Amtrak has many stops in the United States where you can literally flag down the train, get on, and pay your fare. A terrorist can go a step further and just leave the bomb on the tracks with a pressure sensitive trigger. Blamo! No security checks needed. These scenarios only prove that what is actually going on with the TSA checks is all security theater.

The TSA tells us nothing on their blog. Then again, the TSA blog exists merely to spout the current party line and not to answer real questions anyway. While the TSA is viewed as a joke, the seriousness of conditioning citizens into complying with their demands is no laughing matter.

The death of Osama bin Laden is just another incremental step on the way to a full-fledged police state. We allow ourselves to be whipped up into such a frenzy of fear that we have joyously let the government walk all over us. We need to stop being lazy, turn off the TV, and do something before all of our freedoms are gone for good. The Patriot Act is due to expire at the end of this month. Now is as good a time as any to tell your representatives that you are not afraid and to roll back what has been taken from us. Refuse to be terrorized and you can make a difference in helping to restore our rights.

It’d be nice to think we could actually return to pre-9/11 times, but the government is content with removing our freedoms, particularly if it means sending money along to former politicians for their grand ideas of security theater. In the end, we have to ask ourselves was it really worth it to give up our freedoms in exchange for the perceived notion of safety?

Until we succeed in rolling back these restrictions and disbanding the TSA, Osama bin Laden will live on in new government initiatives aimed at restricting our freedoms further.